[Gdal-dev] [Fwd: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy, Numeric or numarray or all of them?]

[Mateusz Łoskot]

Hi,

Yesterday, I started some discussion
(http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2006-May/008843.html)
about NumPy inspired by Didrik's bug report.

Then, we have short chat with Frank and Norman on the #gdal and we
decided to ask for a piece of advice from NumPy developers.
So, today I posted our questions to numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net.

Unfortunately, I've forgot to CC it to gdal-dev list, so here I'm
pasting the URL to my post so you can track the discussion:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/5441

Here is the post:

-------- Original message --------
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] NumPy, Numeric or numarray or all of them?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:37:47 +0200
From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>
To: numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net

Hi,

I'm a developer contributing to GDAL project (http://www.gdal.org).
GDAL is a core GeoSpatial Librarry that has had Python bindings
for a while. Recently, we did get some reports from users that GDAL
bindings do not work with NumPy package.
We've learned on the NumPy website that it's a new derivation from
Numeric code base.

So, now we are facing the question what we should do?
Should we completely port our project to use NumPy or to stay with
Numeric for a while (e.g. 1 year). There is also idea to support both
packages. Python plays a very important role in GDAL project, so our
concern are quite critical for future development.

This situation brings some questions we'd like to ask NumPy Dev Team:

Is it fair to say we are unlikely to see Numeric releases for new
Pythons in the future?
Can we consider NumPy as the only package in future?
Simply, we are wondering which Python library we should develop for
NumPy, Numeric or numarray to be most generally useful.
What's the recommended way to go now?

We'd appreciate your assistance on this issue.
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Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Łoskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net